pay 
of nil that i- ivrHvi- fn.in i.o.l, what doe wo pay for, 
more then prayern mnl pi i\ >.^ 
V,ll,:,,. l.ik khlHteS, Till. 
'Tisnot in KIIIIHT alu> \vlin r I'<|<1< :u .- ju;nle to pay 
/r thi-ir Ilinimin Litter, .loiiniry to Paris, p. 100. 
To pay for a dead horse. *,-, /'' . - To pay off, to 
Jail away to leeward, as the Iu-ail "f H ship. 
The little vessel paitl o/ from tin- wiiul. and ran on fur 
Mum- linn- iliivrily Ill-ton- it, tearing through the water 
w ith cvrrythiiiK lluiiL'. 
/;. // IMI,II, Jr., llefore the Mast, p. 24. 
TO pay on, to !><-:it with vi^or : redouble blows. [Colloq.] 
To pay UP, t" |y fully or promptly. 
pay 1 (pa), ll. [< MK. IHIIJ, IKIIII; < ( >F. /!,/:. I'. 
l>ui/r = I'r. i>n<jti, /'";/, paia = Sj>. Pg. It. 
/K/I/". pay: from Hie verli. | It. Sni ist'aetion : 
((intent; liking; pleasure. 
A man may servi-n lift nixl more to pay 
In half a yer, althuw it were no more. 
Than mini nun <i<itli thai hath servyd fill yore. 
t'l."in;i- l':n ll.imrnt ft Fowls, 1 474. 
\li lijf to h-il,- ill Word A drill- 
As Is muoHt pit-Haunt to tltl pay, 
Anil to di-ii- \w-rl whanne it is my day. 
Hymn* to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. 9.), p. 14. 
It was more for King (.'urnwalls pleasure 
Then it was for Kim; Arthurs pay. 
BaUail } King Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. Wl). 
2. Compensation given for services performed; 
salary or wages; stipend; recompense; hire: 
as, a soldier's /int/ MIHI allowances; the men de- 
nia tided higher /'".'/ 
Encry common souldier discharged recelued more in 
money, victuals, apparel], and furniture then liis pay did 
amount vnto. HaUuyfi Voyayet, II. 11. 151. 
This trial is Interesting, as it furnishes us with evidence 
as to the pay of an editor, or rather author (for Tuchin 
wrote the whole paperX of that time. 
Athton, .Social Life ill Reign of Queen Anne, II. 76. 
3. Pay-day. [Obsolete or colloq.] 
They haue euery pay, which Is 45. dayes, ... 15 thai- 
lags sterling. HaMuyt's Vnyayet, II. 108. 
Deferred pay. Sec defer*. Full pay, the official al- 
lowance without deduction to officers of the army and 
navy, as for active service. Good (or bad) pay, sure (or 
not to be trusted) to pay debt* : said of persons. [Colloq.] 
Half pay. See half-pay. In the pay Of, hired by; 
employee! for pay by : as, he was in the pay of the company 
for many years Pay dirt, pay gravel, In gold-mining, 
gravel or sand containing a sufficient amount of gold to be 
profitably worked. See dirt. 
O, why did papa strike pay gravel 
In drifting on Poverty Hat? 
Bret Ilarte, Her Letter. 
Pay-streak, in gala-mining, that part of the gravel in 
which the gold is chiefly concentrated. [I'lacer-mining 
of the Pacific States. ) The term Is sometimes, but rarely, 
used to denote the valuable or paying part of a lode or 
metalliferous deposit inclosed in the solid rock. Syn. 2. 
Wa\tft, etc. See salary. 
pay- (i>ii), c. /. [Prob. < OF. peier, poier, poyer 
(also in coinp. *empeier, ei]>oier = Sp. entpe- 
<l<ir), pitch, < L. picare, piteh, cover with pitch, 
< pii (pic-), pitch : see pitch-, ., and cf. pitch 1 *, 
p.] Naut., to coat or cover with tar or pitch, 
or with a composition of tar, resin, turpen- 
tine, tallow, and the like: as, to pay a seam 
or a rope. 
In st. -HI of Pitch, we made Lime, mixed with Tortoise 
oyle, and as the Carpenters calked her, I and another 
paifd the seames with this plaster. 
Quoted in Capt. Joan SmiUi's Works, II. 118. 
Paying ladle. See ladle. The devil to pay. Seerferfl. 
That can be paid, or is to be paid; capable of 
being paid. 
Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest South. 
2. To be paid; due: as, bills pityuhlt ; homage 
or allegiance payable to the sovereign. Due and 
payable. See due. 
payably (pa'a-bli), adr. To the extent of be- 
iiif,' profitable". 
Their lower beds have been found to le pat/ably aurif- 
!TOM<. ffn, Diet, IV. 427. 
pay-bill (pa'bil). u. A bill or statement speci- 
fying the amount of money to be paid, as to 
workmen, soldiers, and I lie like. 
pay-car (pii'kiir), H. In railroad service, a car 
in which a paymaster travels from point to 
point almii; the line, to pay the employees. 
pay-clerk (pa'klerk). H. 1. A elerk who pays 
WHJIOS. 2. A elerk to a paymaster in tlie 
I'nited States army or navy. 
pay-corps (pa'korj. H. In the United States 
navv, the corps of paymasters. 
paydt, p. a. An old spelling of i>aiil. 
pay-day (pa'da), . The day when payment i> 
to be made or debts are to be discharged; the 
day on which watresor money is stipulated to be 
paid: in etoelejoobiltg, the day on which a trans- 
fer of stock must be completed and paid for. 
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tabouret* pay away all their wage*, and live uprm trust 
till next pay-day. Locke. 
pay-director (pii'di-rek'torl. . In the t'tiiled 
States mivy.aii officer of the pay -corps, ranking 
with a captain. 
payedt, /' " An old spelling of jinui. 
payee (pii-e'), i. [< pay 1 + -w 1 .] A person to 
whom money is paid or is to be paid ; sperili- 
eally, in luir. the party in whose favor the 
promise or direction to pay negotiable paper 
i> expressed. 
A bill of exchange li an order by one peraon, called the 
drawer, to another, termed the drawee, living In a differ- 
ent place, directing him to pay a certain sum of mom y to 
a third person, denominated the payee. 
Harper', May., LXXX. 470. 
payent, ". and H. A Middle English form of 
jutifitn . 
Payena (pft-ye'njl), . [NL. (Alphonse do Can- 
dolle, 1W4), after A. Payen (1795-1871), a bo- 
tanical writer.] A genus of gamopetalous 
trees of the order Sapotacae, characteri/.ed by 
four sepals, eight petals, and sixteen stamens. 
There are or 7 species, natlres of the Malay peninsula 
and archipelago. They are trees with milky juice, rigid 
leaves minutely clothed with reddish scurf or with silky 
hairs, and small clusters of pediceled flowers In the axils, 
each cluster usually producing a single ovate-oblong berry. 
See gutta-putih. 
payer (pa'er), n. [< pay* + -*ri.] One who 
pays; specifically, the person named in a bill 
or note who has to pay the holder. Also payor. 
payetrellet, n. Same as poitrel. 
pay-inspector (pa'iii-spek'tor), n. In the United 
States navy, an officer of the pay-corps, rank- 
ing with a commander. 
pay-list (pa'list), n. A pay-roll; specifically 
(mi/it.), the quarterly account rendered to the 
war-office by a paymaster. 
paymaster (pa mas'ter), n. 1. One who is to 
pay, or who regularly pays; one from whom 
wages or remuneration is received. 2. An of- 
ficer in the army whose duty it is to pay the offi- 
cers and men their wages, and who is intrusted 
with money for this purpose. 3. An officer in 
the United States navy who has charge of 
money, provisions, clothing, and small stores, 
and is responsible for their safe-keeping and 
issue Fleet paymaster. See jleeta. Paymaster- 
general, in the United States army, the chief officer of 
the pay-department of the United States war-office. He 
has general charge of the payment both of the army of 
the United States, and of volunteers and militia when in 
Its service, and holds the rank of brigadier-general. In 
England there Is an officer of the same name, exercising 
similar functions. Paymaster-general of the navy, 
a principal official of the United States Navy Department, 
chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, holding 
the rank of commodore. See department. 
paymastership (pa'mas'ter-ship), n. [< pay- 
master + -ship.] The office or status of pay- 
master. 
Walpole once again assumed the paymattenhip of the 
forces. Knnie. Brit., XXIV. 335. 
payment (pa'ment). n. [Early mod. E. alsoput- 
ment; < OF. (aiid F.) payement = Pr. pagamen, 
paiamen = Sp. Pg. It. pagamento, payment, < 
ML. *pacamentum, payment, < pacarc, pay : see 
l>ny 1 .] 1. The act of paying; the delivery of 
money as payment, in the course of business. 
The king had received various complaints of the Agows, 
who had abused his officers, and refused payment of trib- 
ute. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 328. 
2. More specifically, in lair, the discharge of a 
pecuniary obligation by money or what is ac- 
cepted as the equivalent of a specific sum of 
money; " the satisfaction, by or in the name of 
the debtor, to the creditor, of what is due, with 
the object to put an end to the obligation" 
(fliiiKlxniit). It Is In the strictest sense distinguished 
on the one hand from a discharge by offset or compromise, 
and on the other from an advance of the money by a third 
person who divests the creditor's claim by taking to him- 
self the right to enforce it in the place of the former. 
3. The thing given in discharge of a debt or 
fulfilment of a promise; recompense; requital; 
reward. 
Too little t>ayment for so great a debt. 
Shot., T. of the S., v. 2. 154. 
The Countrey is so fertile that, at what time soeuer come 
he put into the ground, the paitnrnt is good with increase. 
Pvrchat, Pilgrimage, p. 466. 
4. Hence, figuratively, chastisement; punish- 
ment. 
If It fortuned that a child, having been chastised by an- 
other man, went to complain thereof to his own father, it 
was a shame for the said father if he gave him not his pay- 
ment again. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 382. 
North. Yield to our mercy, proud 1'lantagenet 
Clif. Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm, 
With downright payment, show'rt unto my father. 
Shot., 3 Hen. VI., I. 4. 32. 
Payta bark 
Application of payments, appropriation of pay- 
ments, thi- determining wliid, ,,f r .\,t.il oMi^atiima 
shall )>< ' xfinu*'li-ln''l I M'lno'1, \\h--n !l p:iytn- nt not 
sufficient t Thiii*. if :i <l. dt'.i 
owing to the same creditor an ope n .1. . ..nut. a bund, and 
a note secured by mortgaKr on tin 1. ht.n - property pays 
a sum sufficient to satisfy only one, it la for his Interest 
that It lie applied to the mortgage, au as to free his pro|-rty 
from incumbrance; and it Is for his creditor's interest 
that It be applied to the open account, which la unw<-m , .1, 
and will he outlawed before the l>nil. I h. riuht of ppl|. 
cation rests with the debtor at tin linn: ..f paying. If he 
does not exercise It, It passes to the creditor. If neither 
debtor nor creditor exercise* the right , the ronrt, if con- 
troversv arises, make* the application on eijultahle princi- 
ple*. Equation of payment*. See equation Pay- 
ment into court, tin- ileiHmlt In due form with an officer 
of the court of a sum sued for, or of so much is admitted 
to hi- ,lm , for tin h. IM lit of the phiiatitt If he will ac- 
cept it 
pay mistress (pu'iuis'tres), it. A woman who 
gives money for goods supplied or services ren- 
ilered. 
paynt, n. See pain-. 
payne't, An ObMleiC spelling otjiain*. 
payne-t, ". A Middle English form of pagan. 
paynim, painim (pa'nim), n. and a. [< ME. 
l>ainiw, i"ninjm, payntme, paynym, payiiemc, 
paincm, < OF. paienime, paienumie, paiennutme, 
painisme, etc., F. imganisme, paganism: see 
paganism.] I. n. 1. Paganism; heathenism; 
heathendom; heathen lands collectively. 
Thys word was sone wide In paynyme ybrogt 
So that princes In layiiinne were of grete thogt. 
KiJi. / (Moveeater, p. 403. 
Thau Ector was one, as aunter befelle, 
tfro the parties of ;j/tn|rnv present at home. 
Dettrnetion o/ Troy (E. E. T. 8-X L 2162. 
2. A pagan; a heathen. 
So that thulke stnde was for let mony a day. 
That no crlstene mon ne Painym nuste where the Rode lay. 
llly flood (ed. Morris), p. 36. 
Other do accomodate It p'Xoacc teipsnm") to Apollo, 
whom the paynimet honoured for god of wysedome. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, ill. 3. 
The Emperours deputle, albeit he were a painim, yet did 
ho abhore the murthering of a man whom he fudged to be 
an Innocent and gulltlesse person. J. Udall t On Mark XT. 
Thus far even the payninu have approached ; thus far 
they have seen Into the doings of the angels of God. 
Hooter, Eccles. Polity, i. 4. 
H. n. Pagan; heathen. 
Cornelius Tacitus, a panim writer, and enlmie to the 
Christians. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577\ p. 395. 
Paynim sons of swarthy Spain 
Had wrought his champion's fall. 
Seott, Rob Roy, ii. 
A people there among their crags, 
Our race and blood, a remnant that were left 
Paynim amid their circles. Tennyum, Holy Grail. 
[Obsolete or archaic in all uses.] 
paynimryt, painimryt (pa'nim-ri), n. [ME. 
puyni/mrru; < paynim + -ry.'] Paganism; hea- 
thendom. 
paynize (pa'niz), r. t.; pret. and pp. naynized, 
ppr. jxiunizing. [After one Payne, the inven- 
tor of the process.] To harden and preserve, 
as wood, by a process consisting in placing the 
material to be treated in a close chamber, de- 
priving it of its air by means of an air-pump, 
and then injecting a solution of sulphid of cal- 
cium or of barium, following this with a solu- 
tion of sulphate of lime. The latter salt acts chemi- 
cally on the calcium or barium sulphid, forming all 
through the wood sulphate of calcium (gypsum) or sul- 
phate of barium (heavy-spar). Wood thus treated Is very 
heavy, but very durable and nearly incombustible. 
pay-office (pa'of'is), n. A place or office where 
payments are made, particularly an office for 
the payment of interest on public debts. 
payor (pa'or), n. [< pay 1 + -or 1 .] See payer. 
payret, . An obsolete spelling of pair 1 . 
pay-roll (pa'rol), . A roll or list of persons 
to be paid, with note of sums to which they are 
entitled. 
paysa (pi'sft), n. See pier. 
paysage (pa'saj; F. pron. pa-e-zazh'), n. [F., 
< pays, country : see pais*, peasant.] A land- 
scape. 
But the greatest part of this paymge and landscape Is 
sky. Jrr. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 103. 
Life seems too short, space too narrow, to warrant you 
in giving in an unqualified adhesion to a paymge which la 
two-thirds ocean. 
H. Jama, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 344. 
paysagist (pa'sa-jist), . [< paysaoe + -i.r.] 
An artist or draftsman who works in landscape ; 
a landscape-painter. 
The lists are now open to some clever paymgitt to prove 
that his art Is the supreme flower of all. Art Age. IV. 4-.'. 
payset, '' An obsolete form of poise. 
paysyblet, ". A variant of peaceable. ('/( 
Payta bark (pa'tii bark). A pale cinchona- 
bark shipped from Payta in Peru. 
